Georges Méliès Movies

Not much of a plot. A couple is menaced by some sort of bizarre religious cult. Then they're saved.

Benvenuto Cellini, sculptor to the King, is thrust into a dungeon because he has offended His Majesty by not being able for some time past to produce...

Watering the Flowers (French: L'Arroseur) was an 1896 French short comedy film directed by Georges Méliès. It was released by...

The Jewish ex-officer Alfred Dreyfus's degradation. He stands in a military quadrant and the Adjutant proceeds to tear off his medals; Dreyfus is...

Two comic characters, Jack Jags and Dum Dum, perform slapstick comedy on stage.

A section of the port Haliquen (Quiberon) Bretagne, at night where Dreyfus was landed by French marines, and officers after his transport from...

A street scene.

A man surprises a woman. While the film is lost, there is a new digital version based on re-creation from a flipbook produced by Léon Beaulieu...

The seven-minute film takes place inside a classroom where some cops are learning English.

A lost film directed by Georges Melies

In a wizard's cavern, a series of magic tricks are performed..

In a corner of the garden we see an ornamental fountain. An old professor comes along, looking for a nice spot where he can teach his pupils. Finding...

Reconstruction, with models, of the explosion of the battleship Maine in Havana. Samir Benhalilou contacted Méliès' granddaughter and...

A silly-looking composer attempts to compose. He then falls asleep, and dreams of all manner of bizarre nonsense.

"This view represents a grand transformation scene of several tableaux, the more interesting and the more surprising in the order of their...

The scene is similar to that seen at Coney Island, where a number of shows are constantly going on.

A magician produces a living portrait of himself.

The film, of which only fragments are known to survive, features Méliès as a magician making playing-card figures come to life in...